What's the perfect size Company for IT work?

Interesting discussion I had today with a new employee at one of my middle sized clients.

She said, that this employer was just right. Smaller firms had too much putting out fires, little tasks to do etc, whilst big firms had too many processes and fixed ideas.

When I mentioned the Six Sigma with it's massive failure rate in industry, she mentioned a very large IT firm that uses it. No wonder they've tried to outsource so much work from india, because there are too many processes to get anything done.

This kind of changes the way one looks at what companies you'd want to work for.

The whole industry is changing at the moment due to cost cutting, so even the sizes and types of firms that are good to work for are changing.

Even one company that aggressively promotes that it was voted a top firm to work for a few years ago, now with it's Six Sigma implementation and other processes, everyone there seems under the gun and not the most pleasant workplace.

As for me, as long as the company makes sure it's employees have access to plenty of Moccona Coffee, they are ok.